Brandon Lowe helps the Pirates top the Cubs 4-3 in series finale<\/p>\n
CHICAGO \u2014<\/p>\n
Brandon Lowe hit a tiebreaking two-run single in Pittsburgh’s three-run sixth inning, and the Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 on Sunday to avoid a sweep of their weekend series.<\/p>\n
Bryan Reynolds had two hits for Pittsburgh, including an RBI single in the first. Carmen Mlodzinski, Luke Weaver and Mason Montgomery combined for 3 2\/3 hitless innings in relief of Bubba Chandler (8-9).<\/p>\n
The Pirates (75-75) closed out a 4-2 stay in Chicago. They swept the White Sox before dropping two of three against the Cubs.<\/p>\n
Miguel Amaya homered for Chicago, and Michael Busch had two hits. Matthew Boyd (8-5) allowed four runs and seven hits in 5 1\/3 innings in his second straight loss.<\/p>\n
The Cubs (83-67) dropped into a tie with Philadelphia for the top spot in the NL wild-card standings. <\/p>\n
Montgomery worked a perfect ninth for his 13th save in 15 chances. The Pirates had a 3-2 lead on Saturday before a wild Gregory Soto surrendered two runs in the eighth inning of a 4-3 loss.<\/p>\n
Chicago jumped in front in the series finale on Amaya’s sixth homer, a two-run drive to left with two out in the fifth. It was his first homer since Aug. 16.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh responded with three runs in the sixth. Reynolds reached on a leadoff walk and scored on Nick Gonzales\u2019 ground-rule double. With one out and the bases loaded, Lowe made it 4-2 when he drove in Rafael Flores Jr. and Gonzales with a pinch-hit liner to center off Aaron Civale.<\/p>\n
Chicago closed to 4-3 on Nico Hoerner’s grounder to second in the bottom half. But the Cubs left the bases loaded when Pedro Ram\u00edrez flied to right against Mlodzinski, ending the inning.<\/p>\n
Pirates: Following an off day, the Pirates host the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night in the opener of a nine-game homestand.<\/p>\n
Cubs: LHP David Peterson (7-8, 5.28 ERA) starts on Monday night against Atlanta. RHP Reynaldo L\u00f3pez (4-4, 4.13) takes the mound for the visiting Braves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Lowe helps the Pirates top the Cubs 4-3 in series finale CHICAGO \u2014 Brandon Lowe hit a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[2132,98134,5,1751,5343,707,981,138,24,4245,161,107,1097,2000,37,728,59,4,10608,33,41223,45122,144,64],"class_list":["post-804267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-aaron-civale","tag-ap-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-bubba-chandler","tag-carmen-mlodzinski","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-luke-weaver","tag-mason-montgomery","tag-matthew-boyd","tag-michael-busch","tag-miguel-amaya","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-nick-gonzales","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-nl-wild-card","tag-pedro-ramirez","tag-philadelphia","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117265949232849132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}